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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Latin American finance ministers warned U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday that the uncertainty over Washington's public finances is having side effects in the region and that an eventual debt default would be "devastating."
Colombia's Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas, who chaired a meeting of finance ministers of the Americas in Washington, told reporters afterwards that Lew gave an upbeat presentation to the group about the U.S. economy's growth prospects.
But the Latin American ministers used the opportunity to send a direct message to Washington to quickly resolve the political impasse over the budget and the looming deadline for raising the debt ceiling.
"We expressed our concern about the collateral effects that we're seeing in Latin America from the uncertainty about the fiscal behavior, in terms of issues like the debt ceiling in the United States as well as in the conduct of monetary policy here in the United States," Cardenas said.
He urged U.S. economic and political authorities to reach a consensus to avoid "an abrupt cut in public spending which could affect the growth of the U.S. economy."
"Also, naturally to avoid a possible default on the U.S. debt which would have devastating consequences on the economies of Latin America."
The finance ministers see it as unlikely the United States will fail to pay its debt obligations, but Cardenas said it was nonetheless "somewhat of a concern" that was expressed in the meeting.
The hemispheric gathering took place on the sidelines of meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this week in Washington.
U.S. President Barack Obama launched a series of meetings on Wednesday with lawmakers to try to break the fiscal impasse, but there were few tangible signs of progress.
The dispute has shut the government for nine days and rattled financial markets with the threat that the country's $16.7 trillion borrowing limit will not be raised before an October 17 deadline.
(Reporting by Louise Egan; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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Detroit Medical Center's Harbor Health Plan Inc., the newly minted name of the former ProCare Health Plan, expects to increase its membership to 18,000 this year, up from 3,300 currently, primarily as the state expands Medicaid this spring and nearly 100,000 people with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level begin to enroll in Wayne County.
"When we bought ProCare in (October) 2012 (for $6 million), we felt at DMC that we wanted to have a new brand name for a fresh start," said Greg Berger, M.D., Harbor's chief medical officer.
Berger said DMC's own name has helped Harbor Health increase membership the past year to 3,300 from 1,900 members. Harbor Health is only licensed in Wayne County.
Harbor Health this week plans to begin a marketing and advertising campaign that primarily will be on radio and cable television, said Sarah Collica, DMC's press secretary.
Nearly 100,000 of the state's expected 470,000 uninsured people are expected to be eligible for Medicaid expansion in Wayne County, said the Ann Arbor-based Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation in a January 2013 report. Another 85,000 are expected in Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties, CHRT said.
Medicaid eligibility will now cover a single adult with annual income of $15,000 or less and families of four with annual income below $34,000.
Harbor expects to add members in several ways, said Berger, one of which is adding Harbor MIChild.
MIChild is Michigan's program for children of low-income working families that is part of the 17-year-old federal Children's Health Insurance Program.
Some 37,500 children under age 19 whose parents are not eligible for Medicaid receive health and dental coverage for about $10 per month per family.
Since Oct. 1, the Michigan Department of Community Health has been transitioning the MIChild program from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan into Medicaid health plans as part of health care reform. Blue Cross continues to cover about 6,000 MIChild members, said Blue Cross.
Harbor Health Plan also hopes to pick up about 6,000 enrollees in Wayne County this spring from the state-funded adult benefit waivers program, currently administered through the Wayne County Four State Health plan.
Over the next few weeks, the estimated 35,000 adult beneficiaries with incomes lower than 35 percent of the federal poverty level in Wayne County are being shifted into the Medicaid program.
Those people will choose among eight Medicaid health plans in Wayne County, including Harbor Health, Midwest Health Plan, Meridian Health Plan, Molina Healthcare of Michigan, Blue Cross Complete and three other plans.
Jon Cotton, president and COO of Detroit-based Meridian Health Plan of Michigan, said Meridian, the state's largest Medicaid HMO with 290,000 members, could add up to 100,000 new members during the next year.
Kathy Kendall, CEO of Flint-based McLaren Health Plan, said McLaren plans to add about 10 percent of newly eligible Medicaid enrollees in the 53 counties it operates in.
"We also started enrolling MIChild and already have 3,500 children," Kendall said. "They are considered commercial, and the fees are lower than Medicaid."
As part of its growth strategy, Harbor Health Plan will also add a Medicare Advantage product this year and apply to the Michigan Department of Community Health in 2015 to expand its Medicaid plan into Oakland County, Berger said.
"We have an incredibly big (physician) network," Berger said. "We have more than 400 primary care physicians in Wayne County and more than 3,000 specialty doctors."
While some experts have expressed concern that the nearly 1 million newly insured people in Michigan might have problems finding primary care providers, Berger said medical access won't be a problem.
"Everybody is worried about it, but I talk with a lot of physicians and they would like to be busier than they are right now, especially at Medicare rates," Berger said.
Under Medicaid expansion, physicians have been promised to be paid Medicare rates for at least the first two years.
Harbor Health is managed by DMC's accountable-care organization, Michigan Pioneer ACO. DMC has a contract with Medicare to coordinate care for about 15,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients.
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My mother has said she wasn't surprised that I became a lawyer because as a child I would never take "no" for an answer. Because of life's needs, we begin developing our negotiating skills very early in life. What I learned from negotiating with my mother for the price of a movie ticket began my quest to become a successful negotiator. Although there is a need for negotiating skills throughout life and in most occupations, the need to be a skillful negotiator is critical for lawyers. Some people associate negotiations primarily with personal injury cases because it is estimated that 95 percent of those cases are settled before trial. Through some of the articles presented in this issue of GPSolo, perhaps we can help overcome that misconception.
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Like many other New Englanders, Jeremiah Madison Doe (1811-1884), a shoemaker living in Metheun, Massachusetts, succumbed to Gold Rush fever. In September 1849 he set sail on the Euphrasia for the California gold fields. Doe recorded his adventures in a diary he titled "Events and incidence that Occur on my passage or Voige to California," and made watercolor drawings of some of the locations he visited. On March 14, 1850, in the port of Valpariaso, Chile, he and seven companions toured the area: "Now in the port of Valparaiso 122 days from Boston---. This is a very good Harbour and it is said there is a flag of every Naishion here, there is one hundred vessels or more in this port now---. Being unable to travel but very little I hierd a Horse and paid one dollar for the use of him. When we started from the stable there was Seven of us, there is a law here against riding faster than a trot as it is in our Sittys--- we past along out into the Countrey and had a very good time."
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The Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with the reliable and continued operation of Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects, with the support and development of Wikimedia's open source software stack including MediaWiki, and with developing technical strategy and technical programs to increase Wikimedia project reach, information quality, and volunteer participation. To this end, the CTO works with the Wikimedia technical staff, with contractors, and with volunteers, and supports the overall evolution and growth of Wikimedia's technology ecosystem.
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Timberlane School Board backs full-day kindergartenBy ADAM SWIFT
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December 23. 2013 10:11PM
PLAISTOW — The Timberlane School Board is supporting the district plans to move forward with a full-day kindergarten program for the 2014-15 school year.
Money for the program is currently included in the proposed budget for next year, although the fees charged for full-day kindergarten will cover the costs for the program, according to Superintendent Earl Metzler.
The full-day kindergarten program will be part of the proposed budget that will come forward for a public hearing on Jan. 16.
The proposal for full-day kindergarten calls for one class of 20 students for each of the district's four elementary schools. There would still be a number of half-day kindergarten classes at each school, according to Pollard School principal Michelle Gaydos.
Although no final cost for full-day kindergarten has been set, the committee bringing forward with the proposal has been using a figure of $4,500 per year.
Gaydos said the amount will be similar to what many parents already pay for childcare while their children are in half-day classes.
"Financially, I don't think that will be a hardship for most," she said. "It will be for some, but we would have to have plans in place for them, as well."
Some surrounding communities, such as Newtown and Kingston, offer full-day kindergarten at no cost to parents. Salem offers full-day kindergarten for $3,200 per year, and Bedford offers the program for $5,000 per year.
The additional staffing costs for the program are just over $150,000 per year. Each school would need an additional half-time teacher as well as an additional half-time aide.
There would also be one full-time Spanish teacher to cover classes in each of the four elementary schools.
At a presentation to the Timberlane School Board last week, Gaydos and several district kindergarten teachers who sit on the full-day kindergarten committee laid out the benefits of having full-day kindergarten in the district.The Renaissance Kindergarten program would allow the district to focus on art and music programs as well as foreign language. There would be at least one or two art and music classes per week as well as the inclusion of the arts in the regular curriculum.The longer day would also give teachers more time for individual attention for each student, Gaydos said.
The full-day kindergarten committee is scheduled to meet with the School Board again in February to discuss more concrete details on costs for parents, including help for those who might want to take part in the program but can't afford it.


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Black churches at center of gay marriage debate
When a proposal to legalize gay marriage started gaining momentum in the home state of President Barack Obama, it seemed a quick and easy deal: The pastor of his former megachurch endorsed it with powerful testimony at the Capitol and Democrats control Illinois' government.
But fervor over the idea has stalled for months in that exact spot where faith and politics are inseparable.
Black churches -- where the pulpit has always been political -- are deeply divided over their support for same-sex marriage and are central to the Illinois measure's passage, which awaits a House vote as early as this week. On either side of the issue, pastors and politically active congregations have waged intense campaigns with robocalls, columns and sermons.
"The soup always boils just before it's done, and the soup is boiling now," said the Rev. Phyllis Pennese, an openly gay pastor who runs a tiny congregation for black gay, lesbian and transgendered people in South suburban Summit. "That's why there's all this fury around this issue because it's almost about to be done."
Pennese, the 56-year-old daughter of an Italian immigrant father and black mother, and says the bill is a matter of equality and civil rights. At the time her parents married, interracial unions weren't encouraged, and she doesn't see a difference when it comes to gay marriage.
For a decade, she's preached that love supersedes all at her church, Pillar of Love, where gender signs on the bathroom doors have been purposely removed.
"Love is very powerful," she said. "Check your Scriptures. Love, grace, mercy and compassion and justice always trump law in the eyes of Jesus."
But the other side of the debate features fierce opposition from pastors, including former state Sen. James Meeks. His Salem Baptist Church, with its 10,000-seat arena, is a sought-after stopping point for politicians. His coalition targeting black lawmakers' territories with robocalls saying marriage is between a man and woman.
"In my view, same-sex marriage should not be the law of the state of Illinois," Meeks says in the call, before instructing the recipient to call his or her representative.
The Senate passed a proposal allowing gay marriage on Valentine's Day, and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is in favor of the measure. The House -- expected to take it up before May 31 adjournment -- requires 60 votes.
For weeks, sponsors have said they're close. With two Republicans on board, unofficial tallies hover around 60.
But advocates who wanted Illinois to be the 10th state to allow same-sex marriage have watched state legislatures in Rhode Island, Delaware and Minnesota pass them. That's put the 20 members of the House Black Caucus, all Democrats mostly around Chicago, in an uncomfortable spotlight at a time when Illinois faces disastrous financial problems, including unprecedented pension debt.
Chicago Rep. Ken Dunkin, among the vocal caucus members in support of gay marriage, said he receives calls daily. Others evade the question, suggesting a fear of backlash.
Rep. Will Davis of Homewood remains "really undecided."
"I'm probably getting as many calls on this issue as I am on pensions," Davis said. When asked if he was worried about it affecting his political future he said, "I'm trusting that my constituents are not one-dimensional."
Black congregations have grappled with gay marriage since the nation's first black president publicly said he supported it a year ago. His stance affected Illinois politicians, including Quinn, and pastors in favor boast the support of the Rev. Otis Moss III, even though Obama no longer attends Chicago's Trinity United, which has roughly 8,500 members.
Earlier this year, Moss gave such impassioned testimony in Springfield that it caused at least one lawmaker's jaw to drop.
While polls show public opinion on gay marriage is rapidly shifting in favor -- even the former head of the Illinois GOP supports it -- pastors against it say it's not a uniform view, especially among their congregations.
Traditional black churches have been an organizing front in civil rights struggles, embraced Democratic Party ideals and been key to get-out-the-vote efforts. Political candidates in Illinois -- where Democrats hold supermajorities in both chambers -- won't run for higher office without campaigning at black churches.
At the same time, they're socially conservative.
"The dilemma exists in a lot of churches, it's particularly intense among black churches because of the history of civil rights," said John Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron. "Unlike white churches, black churches have a much longer history of political activity and many in the church are pleased to take cues (from a pastor)."
For many who disagree with gay marriage, the civil rights argument is frustrating.
Bishop Lance Davis, who leads the roughly 500-member New Zion Christian Fellowship Church of Dolton, said blacks have fought for equality for the right to live as human beings, something he's not convinced has been fully actualized.
"You can't compare the two," he said, citing the well-organized gay marriage advocacy in Illinois. "I feel that those gays and lesbians have more power than I do. Have more rights than I do. More freedoms than I do."
That's not how the Rev. Bernard Jakes of the roughly 800-member member West Point Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago sees it.
"Black people do not hold the title of civil rights because of what happened in the '60s. They must take a look at the legal definition," he said. The debate led him to write a pro-gay marriage column for a religious magazine.
"Being able to articulate to the congregation why this is a matter for social justice, it goes way beyond a matter of spirituality," he said.


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Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.34B
Jun. 04, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Salesforce.com will spend more than $2.3 billion to buy marketing software company ExactTarget.
More than 6,000 companies use ExactTarget, which like Salesforce.com uses cloud technology, allowing companies to manage their digital marketing online.
ExactTarget's clients include Coca-Cola Co., Gap Inc. and Nike Inc., and will provide Salesforce.com the opportunity to more closely tie marketing to social media, where people trade ideas or follow trends.
Salesforce.com will pay $33.75 per share. That's a 53 percent premium to ExactTarget's Monday closing price of $22.10. The companies put the deal's value at approximately $2.5 billion.
The company has targeted the cloud marketing space for acquisitions as grows increasingly important to corporations. Salesforce.com bought Buddy media last year.
The buyout announced Tuesday has been approved unanimously by the boards of both companies and is expected to close by July 31.
Industry watchers like Roth Capital Partners said the deal strengthens the cloud marketing ability of salesforce.com, and pushes the company closer to its goal of topping $1 billion in annual revenue from that source.
"The fit is excellent not only because ExactTarget offers complementary products but also in that ExactTarget has a pure cloud solution with leading market share," said Roth analyst Nathan Schneiderman.
Salesforce.com said that the acquisition is expected to lower its fiscal 2014 adjusted earnings by about 16 cents per share and increase its revenue by $120 million to $125 million. Adjusted earnings are now expected in a range of 31 cents to 33 cents per share on revenue between $3.96 billion and $4 billion.
Analysts expect earnings of 48 cents per share on revenue of $3.87 billion.
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A group of King Cove, Alaska, residents are in Washington this week attempting to persuade Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to reverse her rejection of a road through a national wildlife refuge that would allow the isolated community access to medical flights in bad weather.
Jewell said Wednesday she hopes to find a solution that doesn't involve a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a world-class sanctuary for migratory birds.
"We need suggestions from the people in the area on what alternatives would be potentially viable to them if a road does not go through," she told the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on the Interior.
But King Cove residents, who have been lobbying for the road for decades, told reporters there is no alternative.
"Everything the secretary is proposing, we know is not going to work because we live there," said Agdaagux Tribal President Etta Kuzakin, who had to be evacuated by Coast Guard helicopter when she needed an emergency Caesarean section after going into early labor last year.
The village of 950 residents has a clinic, but no hospital or doctor. Medical procedures often require a 600-mile flight to Anchorage, and the King Cove airstrip is frequently closed as gale-force winds race between the North Pacific and the nearby Bering Sea. The village residents want the single-lane gravel road to link King Cove with an all-weather airport at Cold Bay, 22 miles away.
The community attributes more than a dozen deaths through the years to lack of timely medical treatment or plane crashes out of King Cove. Bonita Babcock, community health aide at the King Cove clinic, said critically ill patients can wait for hours to get out of King Cove when "this simple road could make all the difference."
Jewell said Wednesday that her staff is talking to the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers about finding alternative solutions to a road. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told Jewell that the search for such an alternative has been going on unsuccessfully for decades.
"I appreciate you are new to the issue of King Cove," Murkowski told the Interior secretary. "But to them, this has been almost a lifetime of struggling."
Jewell announced her decision to reject the road on Dec. 23, saying that she supports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's conclusion that "building a road through the refuge would cause irreversible damage not only to the refuge itself, but to the wildlife that depend on it."
The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge supports nearly all the world's population of Pacific black brant _ a small goose _ as well as grizzlies, caribou, salmon and millions of shorebirds and waterfowl.
The proposal rejected by Jewell involved transferring more than 56,000 acres of state and tribal lands to the refuge in exchange for access to the road corridor.
Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said he urged Jewell to reverse her rejection of the road in a meeting this week that also included the group of King Cove residents visiting Washington. Begich said he facilitated an agreement in which Jewell promised a prompt decision on King Cove's official request for her to reconsider her decision.
The late Sen. Ted Stevens led a bid to find an alternative to the road that in 1997 resulted in Congress providing roughly $37.5 million in federal funding to upgrade the King Cove medical clinic, improve the King Cove airstrip, and build an unpaved road to a hovercraft terminal from King Cove.
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The series is the brain child of Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey (who stars as Mary, mother of Jesus). As two Americans who were born in Europe and moved to the U.S., the couple decided to create the show after they realized Bible Scripture wasn't taught in American public schools, CNN reported.
"It was time for an updating. Adding fresh visual life to a sacred text," Burnett told CNN.
Burnett's "The Bible" looks to achieve a continuous narrative by compressing several stories from the holy book into one. The first episode, for one, combines Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark into one tale, which is understandable considering he has to put thousands of pages of scripture into 10 hours of screen time.
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In spite the concentrated narrative, Burnett plans to stay as faithful to scripture as possible and expects his interpretation of the Bible to reach many Americans and have a massive impact.
"Will it be screened in movie theaters? Yes, for sure. "Already been approached. Arenas, churches, every way you can imagine," Burnett said.
Burnett, who rose to fame producing reality shows like "Survivor", "The Apprentice" and "The Voice", believes "The Bible" will be his most successful show in the long-run.
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I read that somewhere on the net. Now I'm seeing the 450 and 500 hp number throwin' around again. :confuse:
wbwynn Posts: 246These are the benchmarks until the RS6 is released.0
The 2009' CTS-V will probably be this segments benchmark as far as sedans go.
Not much out of Lexus except a tentative Release date of Late March early April 2008 .........
Got some pictures .......
I will post any information as it comes available.......0
So Lexus has given us a bone and told us to look out for the IS-F at the Dealerships ( Northern Virginia, Lexus Eastcoast) on or about 14 January 2008 ( give or take 7 Days)!!!! Along with this great news they also told us there will be 6 exterior color to choose from, 3 interior colors, and a Basic, Middle and Ultra Option Package available. They also told us that we don't know if we'll get all the colors, or interior colors, or Option Package's in this area ............ more to come on this later. They also told us to get our orders in order as fast as possible since the first Year production will be a Limited number and the "first come first served" allocation process will be in effect. So if you have your order in great!!!! If you don't then you might want to think about it quickly.
Oh yea and lastly the boy's from Lexus said it would be around $60 to $64K +TTP to take one of these home.......
Stay tuned and I'll post whatever information I can when I recieve it.
Is the IS-F available as an AWD?0
The best sources at Lexus say "NO" :mad: ....... it's simply a question of Performance!!!! At 400+ HP an AWD platform would be counter productive, In simpler terms it can't handle the Horses..... we'de have to tune down the Horses and that would be counter productive to the Performance aspects of the IS-F..........
Sorry, the 2008 IS 250 will still be offered as a AWD Model.0
allargon Posts: 75Tell that to Lamborghini, Porsche and Audi. They seem to put a great deal of horses into AWD just fine.0
Sounds like a false excuse. AWD would not require reducing HP, but it would allow for increased HP. However it would somewhat increase weight and reduce gas mileage. Seems like it's really nothing more than a choice.0
OK Michael Before we start throwing " false excuses" as the answer to the comment let's take a Look at the cars in question. Audi R8, wonderful vehicle and AWD! imagine that Also a "Mid Engine Mount"!!!! Talk about apples and oranges The structual specifications for a Mid Engine Mounted vehicles allow for the rigidity and support need in a AWD vehicle with the accent on Performance..... :confuse: OK the Lambo ........ Damn ....... another Mid Engine Mounted Vehicle. OK then onto the Porsche ...... 911?, Boxer?, Cayman ?, all have the engine in the front, all Performance vehicles ........ Oh Gosh .... NO AWD!!! Wait a minute there is the Porsche Cayenne, that's AWD ..... But it's an SUV!
So now it looks as if your choice is: do you want a "Mid Mounted Engine" and AWD or do you go for the true Performance vehicle and stick with the rear wheel drive. Anybody care to discuss Apples to Apples????
Just my $0.02........0
Uh...few corrections
1. 911 is rear engine mount
2. Boxster & Cayman are mid engine mount
3. Porsche does offer an AWD 911 version. Targa(?)0
Again, My point exactly ... Mid-Engine Mount, REAR-Engine Mount both are significatly structured differently to allow for the AWD possibility! Yes or No? :confuse:0
I don't see how more difficult that a front-engine-mount car to allow AWD than a rear-engine-mount one. But anyway, the point should be that the IS-F DOES NOT need to be AWD, period. Why? I'll give you several whys...
1. M3 isn't AWD
2. C63 AMG won't be AWD
3. The only reason why the RS4 is AWD is because Audi is specialized in AWD and they don't have a dedicated RWD platform.0
My reason for saying that an AWD system would require reducing HP is a 'False Excuse' is that putting AWD would actually allow much greater HP since a 2WD system has limits on how much traction can actually get to the road, so the statement just doesn't seem to make any sense. Please note that I'm also only talking about street legal vehicles used for transportation.
Adding an AWD system that only puts a small percentage of the traction to the front wheels still allows that much of a percentage of additional HP to be available towards getting traction.0
Adding HP is just a matter of adding a larger more efficent Engine! What your talking about with traction addition is Torque ( the force that get's the vehicle moving)and this requires Structural and Pitch and roll supports to ensure that the vehicle doesn't tear itself apart over the years. The more weight you add the less Torque you can produce...... hence the less PERFORMANCE the vehicle is allowed to exert on you and your driving experience. AWD adds stability and some Torque at the expense of performance. SEE???0
homerjs Posts: 3The RS6 is front engined with 580 hp. Anyway the TSX and civic si makes more hp/liter than the IS-F which is supposedly a top performance car, never mind the M3 and RS4 which makes 100+ hp/L. IS-F is an embarrassment. 5L from the M5 makes 500hp, IS-F power is made by M3 with only 4 liters. Lexus should just keep on making nice fine luxury boats and leave the hi performance to others. I'd rather get a 335i which is only a tad slower but more comfy and cheaper to insure. Best yet i don't have to explain myself to my friends why a $20k civic engine has better output0
skarie Posts: 78IS-F is an embarrassment. 5L from the M5 makes 500hp, IS-F power is made by M3 with only 4 liters
How is this an embarrassment, the lexus produces 370lbs of torque, the M3 does'nt even have 300.. the lexus also has a faster 0-60 time 4.2vs the M3 4.6..0
kywildcat Posts: 1You got it exactly right, best-to-worst: "In order, Lexus, Acura, Infiniti, BMW and Lincoln."
The Lincoln was designed with a compass and a straightedge. Their over-the-hill designers can put their pencils away already. "No more graph paper for you." I would be insulted if Lincoln tried to sell me their interior as entry-level luxury. Just look at that get-up.
The BMW's redesign took the car from the 80's to the 90's. The orange backlighting looks cheap, and the over-simplistic dash has no character. BMW's are beautiful on the outside, but they make me frown when I get inside, like a VW bag lady wrapped in a fur coat.
The empty chrome space on the Infiniti dash, combined with the cutouts and small climate controls, are disproportionate, the same problem you'd have putting 14" wheels on one of these cars. They took some cues from the Infiniti M, but did not execute it as well. What's up with those vertical vents? Looking at the car on the showroom floor, the exterior of the Infiniti G is more power than luxury. If you want luxury, keep moving.
The Acura is nice (I actually preferred the TSX interior to the TL, since I liked the wood trim strip arcing across the mid-dash). I almost bought the TSX. It's nice that their cars come loaded, with NAV as the only option, which works for me. The blue/white backlighting is beautiful. The TSX is the best bang-for-the-buck.
The Lexus is the best of the lot. My IS250 AWD is on special order for the Mark Levinson audio option. The car will come with every bell and whistle except NAV, which isn't worth $3K, but I'll miss the touch-screen climate controls--pure eye candy. All other entry-level luxury cars (and many more expensive cars) seemed to be missing items I'd want in my car for the next 10 years: hands-free entry (no keys or fob button pushing), pushbutton start, multi-level heated and cooled seats, HID/adaptive lights, electrochromatic rear/side mirrors, real wood trim, AWD--you know, the little things that help boost my carbon score. Even the steering wheel automatically raises/lowers for easy access. Lexus does have the best leather seats, and I can't wait to get my hands around that leather-wrapped steering wheel -- pure happiness. I'm also getting a clear bra and tint, dealer-installed, everything for $35K plus 6% tax. My only quibble with their layout is that the speedometer should be on the right side where it belongs. The only car I'd replace it with in the next few years would be an IS convertible.
Lexus has more luxury prestige (for me) than any of the cars in this group. From day one, Lexus earned their luxury reputation at a value price over the Euro luxury brands. I would be concerned about owning a MB past the initial warranty, and the trips to the shop for days/weeks would be unacceptable anyway. The price of adding every separate option to get all the bells and whistles puts their cheaper cars into the $50K+ range. I prefer Japanese reliability and price-points. I want trouble-free luxury.
I never made it to Audi, Saab or Volvo--maybe next time, maybe not. Those guys have always been collected together (in my mind) as faceless, boring, fringe, "rumoured" automakers to anyone from the States. However, the A4 (or A6) I recently saw was sweet as it drove by. But I had already finished my search before seeing it. They probably need more dealerships and should have been making more-noticeable cars all along.0
pat Posts: 10,421Welcome to CarSpace!0
ajvdh Posts: 223Hmm. A center stack that looks just like the rental Camry I had last September, gaudy Tokyo-by-night instrument cluster, fake looking veneer around a "we stole this from Mercedes" shifter, and door panels that look like they were copied from the '95 M3 I used to own. Yeah, that reeks of "luxury prestige."0
ml16 Posts: 9Hi folks-
I'm a retired and disabled Army Sergeant Major that simply refuses to die, on that happy note...
I have the misfortune (for the moment) of living in the Northern Virginia/DC area and the uber-rich kids at Yahoo have no problem spending an additional $899 for pin striping and a tank of gas.
Can anyone recommend a dealership North or South of Virginia by, let's say, one state?
Lastly, are they taking deposits on the Evos yet?
Many thanks & Happy Holidays,
Mike Maggio0
93buicklesabre Posts: 11I found a 1999 Mercedes Benz C43 AMG at a local dealer in my area. I am wondering if it is worth 8900 dollars. The reason I ask is because it has 132000 miles on it but it seems that the car has had everything done at the Mercedes Benz dealer from when it was new. I was wondering if that is too much for that car? Please guys I would love to hear your responses and tell me what you think. Thanks0
steveaccord Posts: 108I see you never got an answer ....... surely it will not help you any longer but it could be something others may be curious about.....so almost 2 years late I will try to address your question....
Powertrains are generally engineered to last into the 150k miles range so a vehicle with 132k under its belt is left with one or 2 years of 'quasi' dependable service.
The 'quasi' is there to flag that any aged vehicle, even those aged well as in dealer serviced (if you believe that the 2 go hand in hand), is an unknown when it comes to the maintenance/repairs cost.
To be sure Mercedes was known to build some of the cars with great longevity, but that was decades ago and I would not expect a vehicle like the one you are eyeing to come without long...costly....strings attached....plus you would be set back 10 years when it comes to safety related technologies sitting in an already stressed chassis.0


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On the bright side, the rep said the store had not recorded anyone returning damaged iPads they had purchased.
The video, shot in August, showed stockroom workers tossing iPad boxes to one another, and occasionally missing the catch.
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Among other crucial matters this session, the US Supreme Court is expected to determine the legality of executing juvenile offenders with its decision in the Roper v. Simmons case.
Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide. In recent years, however, the juvenile death penalty has met growing resistance, and polls consistently show that roughly 70 percent of the US population opposes the practice.
Internationally, juvenile executions are even more reviled. According to Amnesty International, Iran and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the only other countries in the world that still sanction the execution of juvenile offenders. Moreover, the practice directly violates numerous international human rights agreements, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been ratified by every member of the UN General Assembly except for the United States and Somalia.
The US Supreme Court last reviewed the issue in 1989, when its decision in Stanford v. Kentucky set the minimum eligibility age for the death penalty at 16. But since then, eight states have established a minimum age of 18–raising the total number of states that ban juvenile executions to thirty-one; the District of Columbia, the federal government, and the US military also use 18 as the minimum age.
In October 2002 four Supreme Court Justices expressed their opposition to executing juvenile offenders in a dissent with the majority over the taking of a case that would have allowed them to review the issue. "The practice of executing [juvenile] offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the four. "We should put an end to this shameful practice." However, at least one more vote is needed for a decision in favor of Christopher Simmons, the juvenile offender whose case made its way to the High Court after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the juvenile death penalty violates the US Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
In anticipation of the Court's decision in Roper v. Simmons, The Nation asked four people deeply involved in the fight against juvenile executions in the United States to share their thoughts on the issue. Those four people are Nanon Williams, a writer and death-row inmate in Texas, convicted and sentenced for a crime committed when he was 17 years old; Bill Pelke, a retired steelworker whose grandmother was murdered in Indiana in 1985 by a 15-year-old girl who later received a death sentence; Diann Rust-Tierney, the executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; and Steve Presson, an Oklahoma lawyer who represented both Sean Sellers and Scott Hain, juvenile offenders who were executed in 1999 and 2003, respectively.


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Saturday, January 14, 2012
The Last Voyage of Costa Concordia Mapped
Live ship tracking website Marine Traffic shows the track of the cruise ship Costa Concordia just before it crashed into the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea.
The International Maritime Organization requires all vessels over 299GT to carry an AIS transponder on board. The transponder transmits data on position, speed and course, among some other static information, such as the vessel's name, dimensions and voyage details.
Thanks to this AIS data there are now a lot of Google Maps mashups showing the real-time positions of ships around the world. Marine Traffic shows the track of the last 30 minutes of Concordia's voyage.
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ANAHEIM – The Anaheim Electric Light and Magic Company is flickering a bit.
The Ducks' first three-game losing streak of the season arrived Monday night, with San Jose finding little resistance in grabbing a 3-0 lead. The Ducks, as they have all year, narrowed their eyes and came back to within 4-3, but an empty-netter sealed the loss.
"They beat us at our own game," defenseman Sheldon Souray said, having seen such oscillations before. "They outworked us, won some battles. We have to get a little sense of urgency back on our game. We've started some of these games possibly thinking that it's going to be an easy night.
"We should have a little swagger for sure. We've earned that. We've played well. But we've gotta understand that we have to start better. We've been down in every game. We have to realize that other teams aren't saying, just go ahead and take the two points. We're not going to panic, but we have to have some urgency, if that makes any sense."
The brevity of the schedule is a little shocking – there are only 16 games left for the Ducks. But it's still long enough for reality to catch up, to impose punishment on the season-long habit of giving up early goals.
The Ducks picked up veteran winger Radek Dvorak on Monday, and Coach Bruce Boudreau was asked if this signified a Stanley Cup push.
"I try not to get ahead of ourselves," he said. "I still want to make the playoffs, get first place in the division. You can't think about far down the road you're going to get. We'll see how it goes."
It isn't going well on the Ducks power play, either by volume or performance, and when the Sharks' Joe Pavelski simply out-battled several Ducks to maintain shorthanded possession, many of the 16,083 in attendance began booing this 22-6-4 team.
The echoes from last Wednesday's euphoric comeback victory over Chicago are gone now. That was also the night the Ducks signed Corey Perry, after they had signed Ryan Getzlaf. This is professional sports. There's only one Miami Heat. Glee is not an uninterrupted commodity. The Ducks were going to fall out of their tree at some point.
Some have landed on their feet. One is Cam Fowler, who has been a qualitative success even though the numbers haven't appeared – no goals, four assists, a minus-1.
Fowler has upped his play dramatically over the past two weeks. It would be recognized if his final-second shot had gotten past Detroit's Jimmy Howard on Sunday, instead of glancing off his shoulder. But the scouts know that Fowler is getting it.
"You keep shooting the puck, going to the net, not changing anything," Fowler said Monday morning. "Eventually something good has to happen. Maybe it's a snowball effect. I'm sticking with it. I'm confident I can contribute offensively."
Boudreau said Fowler's revival is almost as simple as this: Fowler is playing left defense again, as he had almost his whole career until the second half of his rookie season. In 2011-12 he was on the right side almost exclusively and wound up minus-28, his confidence puddling.
"If he's on the right side he's coming to his left, and you're always in your partner's area," said Boudreau, noting that Fowler is lefthanded, like a majority of defensemen. "but when he's on the left side, he only moves to the middle.
"Like most of us he doesn't want to use his backhand. He's got great visions on the left side and he can use his forehand. He doesn't have to use a backhand pass, or a hinge … it's tough to play on the off-wing when you're getting pressured. You can't snap the puck and just flip it into the area."
"I'm just used to it," Fowler said. "All my reads happen more naturally. I feel a little more comfortable. On the right side maybe I was putting myself in situations I shouldn't have. Maybe it's more of a trial-and-error situation."
Fowler was minus-7 in the final 13 so-what games last season. "It didn't look good when you saw it on paper," Boudreau said, "but he ballooned up to a number he was better than. Recently he's played tremendous."
Another gem that continues to shine is Emerson Etem. "The league hasn't figured out how fast he is yet," Boudreau said. The rookie from Long Beach got the first goal, nearly had a couple of others on the type of rushes that are becoming a trademark, and doesn't seem worn down by the parade of games.
The Ducks now hit the road, but not to recapture any magic. "Any questions about adversity will be answered in the next two weeks, I guess," Boudreau said. He's under no illusions.
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[Note: ug stands for microgram, or one thousanth of a miligram. Most supplements express dosages in international units (iu) – which is an international standard of an agreed upon biological effect. This varies by the substance measured. For vitamin D3, the conversion to iu is ug times 40; so 22 ug/day – the amount given to these young women starting in September – translates to 880 iu/day. Blood testing for 25(OH)D is considered the best indicator of vitamin D status.]
The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] response to daily supplementation with 20 ug cholecalciferol (D3) during winter in predominantly white premenopausal women living in Maine was measured and the effects of body composition and hormonal contraceptive use on baseline serum 25(OH)D concentrations and the response to supplementation were examined.
A total of 112 women (22.2 ± 3.7 years old) received placebo from March 2005 until September 2005 when they were randomized to receive either placebo or 20 ug/d D3 through February 2006. Eighty-six women completed the study.
Actual mean D3 content of the supplements was 22 ug per capsule. In February 2005 the serum 25(OH)D concentration was 62.0 ± 23.4 nmol/L (mean ± SD).
Serum 25(OH)D concentrations increased by 35.3 ± 23.2 nmol/L from February 2005 to February 2006 in the treatment group, significantly more than the 10.9 ± 16.9 nmol/L increase in the placebo group. Treatment group, magnitude of summer increase in 25(OH)D, estrogen dose, and baseline serum 25(OH)D concentrations, but not body fat, were significant predictors of the 1-year change in 25(OH)D concentrations used to assess the magnitude of the response to supplementation.
Daily supplementation with 20 ug D3 during winter achieved optimal 25(OH)D concentrations (75 nmol/L or more) in 80% of participants, indicating that this dose is adequate to optimize vitamin D status in most young women in Maine.
Source: Journal of Nutrition, March 2009;139(3). Nelson ML, Blum JM, Hollis BW, Rosen C, Sullivan SS. University of Maine, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Orono, Maine; Dietary Supplement Research Group, Saco, Maine; Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Pediatrics, Charleston, South Carolina; Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, USA. [E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com]


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BRAMPTON ON, CANADA -- Wonderfile is advertised on television during prime time as an desk/paper organizer. It will be an extraordinarily costly purchase for many consumers because of the way it is sold, its customer service response, and poor return policy. It has a Canadian and an American website. What is It? Wonderfile is a desktop organizer that is advertised as BOGO (buy one, get one for the additional cost of shipping and handling of $7.99) So unit price + 14.98 S&H for two.
Now the catches: Potential purchasers should be aware of how this product is sold online. Most important thing first -This is not like an ordinary Internet transaction with a reputable company. Customers are not given any chance to review the order before the end. As a result, you do not know how many items you are paying for, what items you are paying for, the total shipping charges, and (very importantly) the final amount you will be charged. Also the front page price listed for the organizer is not the same as the end price.
Wonderfile 's Online Process: Step 1. Fill in your credit information. Step 2. Click that you want to purchase a Wonderfile. Step 3. Additional items (deluxe versions of the organizer) offered. Offer to buy more of the item (e.g. double your order). Wording may not be clear to customer, as to the number of items being purchased and that are paying same S&H for each unit. No opportunity to change your mind or unselect. Step 4. More additional items (unrelated to Wonderfile) to purchase are offered. Step 5. A reputable company would list the items, costs, for you to review and then submit the order.
Wonderfile does the reverse - "Thank you for your order" with a total (and higher price) listed. Thus an 29.99 + 7.98 order can easily become a 120.00 order. You are told your credit card will not be charged until shipped [see below] Have a concern?
Step 6. Efforts to cancel or modify the order by phoning customer service: A. The response "Don't have information on your order, call in four hours" B. Next day - "Don't have your order, call back"... C. Few hours later - "surprise we have shipped it!!!" [ remember step 5 above]
If you are told by a "Customer service" person that as soon as the order shows up on customerstatus.com you can modify the order or cancel, do not believe it. That is false. There is no such possibility. It is another part of the effort to deceive the customer (scam). The Customer Service says that the body/organization taking orders and the organization doing the shipping are different companies in different countries/parts of the country.
Return Policy: 30 days return minus the shipping and handling. Plus you lose what it costs you to ship it back registered. For 4 items you may be losing about $50 in total, assuming the item cost is refunded. Other customers note never receiving their products, and problems returning. Final note: Your credit company will not likely be willing to help you. This is not a matter of "buyer beware". This transaction process is an intentional effort to deceive customers and keep their money.
500 BIC DR, BLDG #4, CONNECTICUT -- If I had read reviews, I never would have ordered the buy one get one (which should mean TWO!) Wonder Files. First, I was confused by the wording, and almost put a "2" in the order form, which would have been 2 sets (4 files!). That should have been my first clue that something was wrong! Then, I was not sure if the $7.99 shipping was for 1 file or 1 set, so I decided to continue and not submit if shipping was $7.99 for each file. Well, once I gave my credit card, I saw that shipping was $7.99 each, but there was no turning back because there was no review process, my order just went through.
Then, there was two chances for me to add more sets, one set was reduced price (this is when I checked reviews, so I did not order any more!). My package came quickly, but it had only ONE FILE... one file for $36.09!! I emailed the company, and 9 days later have not heard back, so my credit card company is taking back half on the charge :-) And, the worst part, read their privacy policy... you have to opt out, one by one, of lots of sharing!
Big Time Scam. Just as previous reviewers state, on their website, you go to place your order, as they promote their "Buy One, Get One Free", asking your to make your selections. Cannot verify order before they process it and you find out you've purchased 2 NOT 1 paying around $75.00 (incl S&H). What a Scam. Don not fall for this scam, but if it is too late as in my clase, please cancel your order on your credit card and report to BBB. I am not able to locate the company's location, address or telephone number.
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT -- Wonder File website is a scam. It claims that you can "buy one get one free" and asks you to choose two. After entering all of your payment information, it doesn't show anything to ask you to confirm the order or the price. After you hit the submit order button, that's when you realize that you have paid for two Wonder Files instead of buy one get one free. No one from the customer service can be contacted after that. Shame on this company.
This is a scam. The website is set up so that you are tricked into putting the quantity you think you are supposed to get and then they double charge you for it. I wish I had read the other bad reviews prior to ordering but I didn't. So then I tried to call them several different times & unless you press option 1 which is a new order, you will not reach anyone on the other options. It just keeps repeating itself. Total scam!!


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My student's Odyssey i-xii by W.B. Stanford has a sketch of the Homeric language. This is his summary after a quick list of the particles, which I thought some others would appreciate:
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February 15, 2013 13:00 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 15, 2013) - Cineplex Inc. (TSX:CGX) ("Cineplex") today announced it has agreed to purchase Fifth Avenue Cinemas and the Park Theatre from Vancouver-based Festival Cinemas. The transaction is expected to close March 1, 2013.
"After 35 years, Tom Lightburn and I have decided to retire from theatre exhibition. We are proud that Canada's best theatre operator has agreed to purchase these theatres and we know Cineplex will provide our loyal guests Vancouver's best movie-going experience," said Leonard Schein, President, Festival Cinemas. "Our sincerest thanks go to the many employees, guests and film critics we have encountered throughout our careers in the entertainment business."
"We are pleased to add these two iconic Vancouver locations to our theatre circuit," said Ellis Jacob, President and CEO, Cineplex Entertainment. "We look forward to offering Vancouver movie-goers the many benefits Cineplex has to offer, including access to the SCENE loyalty program and our popular Front Row Centre Events, to name just a few examples."
"The 5th Avenue and the Park theatres are well known in Vancouver for programming the highest quality art, independent and foreign films. Cineplex is absolutely committed to continue to offer intelligent and artistic films from around the world in these theatres going forward," said Michael Kennedy, Executive Vice President, Filmed Entertainment.
Cineplex will operate the locations as Fifth Avenue Cinemas and Park Cinema for the foreseeable future.
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Cineplex is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and operates 134 theatres with 1,449 screens from British Columbia to Quebec, serving approximately 71 million guests annually through the following theatre brands: Cineplex Odeon, SilverCity, Galaxy Cinemas, Colossus, Coliseum, Scotiabank Theatres, Cineplex VIP Cinemas, Famous Players and Cinema City. Cineplex also owns and operates the UltraAVX, Poptopia, and Outtakes brands. Cineplex trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol CGX. More information is available at www.cineplex.com.
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HOME & GARDEN White Elephant Preview Sale draws bargain hunters for items they didn't even know they needed
There is no shortage of used Crock Pots in Oakland. Actually, there are 35 of them. There used to be more but there was a run on used Crock Pots the other day and the do-gooders of Oakland snapped them up.
It happens every winter at the White Elephant Preview Sale. The Oakland Museum of California fills a giant warehouse full of what many people would call junk and what other, more enlightened people, would call junk, too. Rummaging through junk is a lot of fun for a lot of people, primarily those people whose garages and basements already contain junk but who require more of it.
Hundreds of junk lovers waited in a line six blocks long on Lancaster Street for the right to pay $20 admission to get first crack at the junk. Some said they were there to help the museum during its hour of need (the museum has recently been hit twice by a cat burglar who has stolen a small fortune worth of Gold Rush artifacts that are not junk). But most junk lovers were there just to buy junk, the stuff that "white elephant" is a euphemism for.
They were not disappointed. Precisely at 10 a.m., the waters of the Red Sea parted and the hordes surged forth to get their hands on the crock pots, ceramic cherubs, slightly warped tennis rackets, old National Geographic magazines and slide rules.
Some people ran and those who couldn't walked fast. When the slide rules were all gone, they would be all gone. (They weren't all gone, however, being slide rules.)
In the appliance section were table after table of wafflers, blenders, mixers, toasters, grinders, extractors, processors and pulverizers.
Appliance outlet
"If it plugs into the wall, we have it," said used appliance maven Virginia Furth.
And she did. And it all works. Plug it in and see for yourself. The blender blades spin. The toaster gets hot. OK, you happy now? What do you want for 10 bucks? Take it away.
After checking at least two dozen used Crock Pots, Amy Petrolati of Vallejo settled on one of them, for $14. Its control panel had six red lights and two buttons. There were lesser Crock Pots to be had, she said, but they did not have nearly as many lights and buttons. Tomorrow, she said, she would cook a chicken in it. She bought the Crock Pot too late in the day to start cooking the chicken now, as it takes 10 hours for a Crock Pot to do what a Crock Pot does.
Volunteer Larry Buckley was selling old tennis rackets. He had 29 "ordinary" tennis rackets, another 31 "older" tennis rackets and two "good" tennis rackets. There were 27 badminton rackets, too, but that's a whole different game.
"They all work," Buckley said. "But you still have to hit the ball right. Same with the golf clubs."
Volunteer Beth Hurwich was selling fountain pens. They all work, too. Hurwich was selling fountain pens for $100 and up and writing up the receipts with a 19-cent ballpoint.
"I used to write with a fountain pen but I've moved on," she said.
The warehouse, big enough to hold actual white elephants instead of metaphorical ones, was more crowded than most places in Oakland, including the Oakland Museum on its free admission days. There was some pushing, primarily in the women's clothing department by the winter coats, nothing serious.
All sales were final, as they have been throughout the sale's 54-year history. If you don't like something you bought, said a volunteer, donate it back to the museum and we'll sell it again next year.
Perhaps that was how the sale got its hands on a giant ceramic eagle ($60) and four world globes ($3 to $15) and a bowling ball ($1). There were manual typewriters for $50, $60 and $75. There was a pinball machine for $1,500 and a yellow canoe for $1,450 that the canoe man said he was "pretty sure" had no leaks in it. There was a ceramic statue of a cat baking a cake, for $2.
And there were bookends. The marble parrot bookends were $5. The brass duck bookends were $8. The brass turkey bookends were $10.
Actual books cost extra. The complete works of Shakespeare cost a buck. That meant you could buy 10 complete works of Shakespeare for the price of the two brass turkeys required to hold them up.
3 tiers of flutes
In the musical instrument department, there was a "good flute" for $200, a "flute" for $150 and a "flute - needs work" for $100. Ivory White of Oakland tried playing the flute-needs-work, the way she used to play it in high school, but could no longer command it to any utterance of harmony. She put it back in the case and zipped it up.
"It's probably me, not the flute," White said. "I'm the one that needs the work."
When it was all over, the museum was on its way to matching last year's $1.8 million worth of elephant sales. More white elephants will be clomping through Oakland when the sale resumes on Saturday and Sunday. On those days, admission is free but without the choicest of the white elephants, which were snapped up at the $20-a-head preview sale.
"I think I got the best crock pot," said Petrolati, "but I sure didn't get all of them."
54th annual White Elephant Sale
A benefit for the Oakland Museum of California, the White Elephant Sale returns 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 333 Lancaster St., Oakland. Admission is free. Arrive early, wear comfortable shoes, try not to push. (510) 536-6800; www.museumca.org.
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On a normal day at the Academy of Business, Law and Education charter school in Stockton, students will enter their classrooms and perform a 10-minute warm up assignment as part of a 90-minute course block.
If that sounds like "any high school USA," it is. Except for one thing: ABLE Charter doesn't use textbooks. It's an all-digital high school that uses an online curriculum and Web-based research tools in all of its courses.
"Everybody has a laptop. The text is an online experience, and the kids take them home," the school's Assistant Principal Clem Lee said.
The concept is something that one ABLE teacher, George Neely, wants to expand. Neely also is a Lodi Unified trustee, and he said he plans to make a big push in the coming year to bring the type of school at which he teaches into the district he oversees, even after he's seen resistance for his idea in the past.
"It's really not much different from other high schools," Neely said. "People think what I want to do is make an online school. It's not that. It's a brick-and-mortar campus with teachers. The only difference is we are using technology, and the students are motivated by that."
In Neely's social science class, students recently delivered presentations to their classmates on a report topic of their choosing. Senior Sean Epperson gave a 5-minute speech on United States foreign policy.
Using the classroom smart board -- an interactive white board that connects to a computer -- Epperson presented using Google Presentation software. He did all his research online.
Epperson, 17, and his classmates say they don't miss their books.
"It's really better on the computer," he said.
Lodi Unified has been somewhat resistant to Neely's proposal to start a cyber school, however. Neely presented his idea in late June, but his colleagues on the board said it wasn't the right time for the district to venture in that direction, and they told Neely no.
"I like the idea; it's a good idea. But right now, we have other financial priorities," said Trustee Joe Nava, who was among the no votes.
Neely has pledged to keep pushing for a digital high school.
Lodi technology services director Dale Munsch said the district has been working toward integrating more technology. It has introduced the iPad in eight classrooms throughout the district and hopes to expand the type of work students do on those types of devices. The district is even getting more comfortable with the idea of students using their own technology -- tablets, smartphones, and computers -- in the classroom.
However, the district needs a significant upgrade in its computer technology.
Creating a school based on technology would be a challenge, Munsch said.
"It would take a good amount of work. We would need to know a lot more and get direction from the board to do it," Munsch said. "Is this something they want to do at an existing school that has Wi-Fi internet set up? Or a whole new campus. If it's that, we'd have to go like crazy."
Neely said the result would be worth the expense and the trouble. Buying computers for each student could be cost neutral, if not cheaper, than buying multiple textbooks for each, he said. And students thrive on digital education, he said.
Lee said he constantly reminds people that while some of his students are those that slip through the cracks of traditional high schools, ABLE is not a credit-recovery center, which some schools have to allow students to blaze through online courses to make up for past failures in a short time frame. He said students are motivated.
Senior Belen Bygoytra, 17, said she's grown as a student. The way teachers are able to list assignments on the web and link to them helps keep Bygoytra motivated and on task.
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Snowbound! But there is also good news to share!Submitted by Pam on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 21:42
And the good news first! I am going to continue Gingerbread Snowflakes. But at a slower pace - posting about once or twice a month until the Fall, when I will be back full blast! I am having way too much fun to stop now! I know for sure you can look forward to craft tutorials and maybe a few treasured recipes... who knows.
That Diane, it's all her fault - I am not only hooked, but I would miss all of you so much if I didn't continue. I have made some wonderful new friends and I so appreciate the support all of you have offered me over the past two months. Thank you for being a part of my new adventure.
And now, my snowbound tale.
Merry Christmas Magic all around us!Submitted by Pam on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 17:08
Today I am going to take you on a little Christmas journey to learn more about Christmas traditions in countries that have had the greatest influence on my own celebrations and traditions.
We will begin with the holiday itself - its origins and its traditions. These three links offer a wealth of information about the holiday.
The Sun is returning! Happy Solstice! Happy Yule! Happy ME!Submitted by Pam on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 18:14
Happy Solstice! The sun is returning! (This is a Nebula around a star or sun.)
Give tradition a trySubmitted by Pam on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 17:49
Ok...so today I am going to climb up on my little soap box! And then I am going to treat you to lots of holiday eye candy!
I am hearing and seeing the words "go green" and "repurposing" and "recycle" everywhere I turn this year.
LuminariasSubmitted by Pam on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 16:37
It wasn't Christmas when I was growing up without a drive around town on Christmas Eve to see the Luminarias. Actually, they are known as Farolitos (little fires) in New Mexico and the word "Luminaria" is reserved for the small bonfires used to light the way for participants in Las Posadas. But since most of the world knows the little bags with candles in them as Luminiarias or Luminaries, I am using that word in this post.
December 13th - Santa Lucia DaySubmitted by Pam on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 17:06
Yule lads have arrived! Don't miss them! One will arrive every day from now until Christmas Eve, and you too can share in the fun of their daily visits!
December 12th - Feast of Our Lady of GuadalupeSubmitted by Pam on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 16:56
In Mexico and Latino communities throughout the United States, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated with processions and special church services. You can find beautiful pictures of Our Lady of Guadalupe here.
Debra-Duran Geiger, a Santa Fe artist, designed and hand-painted this lovely representation of Our Lady on high fired ceramic tile. I am so fortunate to have this piece as I understand the artist is no longer making these tiles.
Espejitos (small mirrors in Spanish)Submitted by Pam on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 17:37
Get acquainted with the beautiful arts and crafts of Mexico, beginning with these lovely mirrors, the inspiration for my colorful small mirror ornaments. And while you are visiting the mirrors, do a little exploring on the site. So much artistic talent there to enjoy (and of course to purchase.)
Making Woven Paper Heart Baskets to Celebrate Santa Lucia DaySubmitted by Pam on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 15:25
I have been wanting to learn to make Danish woven paper heart baskets for years, but always felt intimidated by the instructions available to me. So this Fall, Diane and I spent the day together figuring out how to make them. (Of couse, SHE caught on right away and by the time I had finished my first practice basket, she was already in the middle of constructing a 5-strip basket with variations in the strip widths.) Sigh!
I thought I'd share the process of making a basic three-strip basket with you...
Catching up with holiday craftinessSubmitted by Pam on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 15:43
I just have to share some holiday cheer, crafty beauties, and edible art!
I spent most of the Thanksgiving weekend helping my friend Heidi make her very first gingerbread house. My part was strictly instructional - an extra pair of hands when needed for wall support, and a bit of assist with piping on frosting. She chose and applied all the candy and cookie decorations. Notice the little kitty faces in all of the windows - one little candy face to represent each of the four members of her kitty family.